Project Lead - Acquisition Systems Engineering

Location: Hybrid (APG - Aberdeen, MD and Remote)
Travel %: Up to 25% / Comp: 110-175k (DOE) / Active Security Clearance

Summary
T2S Solutions is seeking to hire a Project Lead - Acquisition Systems Engineering to provide integrated acquisition, systems engineering, program management, and lifecycle-management provide support for Department of War (DoW) and Army technology programs. This role will supports government-led efforts to plan, develop, acquire, field, sustain, modernize, and retire systems and capabilities.

The successful candidate will apply technical, analytical, and acquisition-management expertise to support requirements development, acquisition planning, market research, technical evaluations, cost and feasibility analyses, logistics planning, standardization, industrial-base assessments, and strategic technology planning. This position requires the ability to coordinate across technical, programmatic, contracting, logistics, and stakeholder communities while producing clear, decision-ready analyses and documentation.

Responsibilities
Acquisition and Lifecycle Management Support

• Support acquisition and lifecycle management activities from capability requirements development through sustainment and modernization.
• Assist with acquisition strategy and requirements planning, including development of acquisition strategy requirements and supporting packages.
• Develop and maintain Acquisition Requirements Packages (ARPs), Acquisition Plans (APs), market surveys, Independent Government Estimates (IGEs), Justification and Approval (J&A) documentation, and other acquisition-support artifacts.
• Support pre-award and post-award surveys, proposal evaluations, negotiations support, and Source Selection Evaluation Plan (SSEP) development and execution support.
• Conduct cost, cost-performance trade-off, affordability, and feasibility analyses to inform program and acquisition decisions.
• Support regulatory-compliance reviews and assist in aligning acquisition documentation with applicable DoW, Army, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Support operation and maintenance (O&M) planning and lifecycle sustainment activities.
• Assist government personnel with technical acquisition-management training and project-leadership training activities, as assigned.

Systems Engineering and Technical Analysis

• Analyze technology concepts, conceptual designs, technical approaches, and system architectures for feasibility, performance, integration, lifecycle implications, and mission suitability.
• Support technical data reviews and engineering assessments throughout the system lifecycle.
• Assess technology-transfer opportunities, technology insertions, modernization approaches, and associated implementation risks.
• Conduct long-term reliability and maintainability (R&M) analyses and support development of sustainment-focused recommendations.
• Perform ergonomic and human-performance analyses to support user-centered system design and operational effectiveness.
• Support requirements determination, traceability, prioritization, and technical validation activities.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation options for program leadership review.

Program and Project Leadership

• Provide project-management support for complex technical and acquisition efforts, including schedule development, milestone tracking, risk management, stakeholder coordination, and status reporting.
• Develop executive-ready briefings, decision papers, reports, schedules, action trackers, and meeting materials.
• Support analysis of program mission, objectives, performance measures, resource needs, and execution progress.
• Conduct organizational performance assessments, special studies, and targeted analyses to identify improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate coordination among government program offices, contracting personnel, technical teams, logistics personnel, suppliers, and external stakeholders.
• Support development and execution of strategic plans for technology programs and activities.

Logistics, Industrial Base, and Supply Network Support

• Support logistics planning, sustainment assessments, supply network solutions, and supplier-partnership initiatives.
• Assist with DoW and Army Industrial Base Management analyses, including supplier capability, supply-chain risk, production capacity, and resilience considerations.
• Support DoW and Army Standardization Program Management activities, including review of standards, interoperability considerations, and standardization opportunities.
• Assist with Item Unique Identification (IUID) planning, implementation support, data-quality considerations, and lifecycle accountability activities.

Required Qualifications

• Active Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, business, program management, logistics, acquisition management, or a related discipline. Relevant additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree where permitted by contract requirements.
• 5-10+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting technical projects, systems engineering, acquisition, lifecycle management, logistics, or program management.
• Demonstrated experience supporting federal or DoW/Army acquisition processes, documentation, and program-management activities.
• Working knowledge of acquisition planning, requirements development, market research, cost estimating, source-selection support, and contract pre-award/post-award processes.
• Ability to analyze technical, programmatic, cost, schedule, logistics, and performance information and present findings clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience developing professional written products, including acquisition documents, technical analyses, briefings, reports, plans, and decision-support materials.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proficiency with common productivity and collaboration tools, including Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to work independently while effectively coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in systems engineering, engineering management, acquisition management, business administration, logistics, or a related field.
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), Defense Acquisition Credential Program, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), or comparable professional certification.
• Experience supporting Army or DoW program executive offices, program management offices, research and development organizations, lifecycle management commands, or major defense acquisition programs.
• Experience with technology transition, technology insertion, modernization, prototyping, or product-support planning.
• Knowledge of DoW and Army standardization, industrial-base, supply-chain, reliability, maintainability, and IUID programs.
• Experience supporting technical data reviews, engineering change processes, logistics product-data activities, or human-systems integration.
• Experience conducting organizational assessments, strategic planning, special studies, or mission-analysis efforts.

Core Competencies

• Acquisition planning and lifecycle management
• Systems engineering and technical assessment
• Program and project leadership
• Requirements development and management
• Cost, schedule, performance, and risk analysis
• Technical documentation and briefing development
• Logistics and sustainment planning
• Reliability, maintainability, and human-performance analysis
• Supply-chain, supplier, and industrial-base analysis
• Strategic planning and organizational assessment
• Stakeholder engagement and cross-functional coordination

T2S Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability